Mendicants and merchants in the medieval Mediterranean / Taryn E.L. Chubb, East Central University, Ada, OK, USA and Emily D. Kelley, Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, MI, USA.
Mendicants and merchants in the medieval Mediterranean: an introduction / Taryn E.L. Chubb and Emily Kelley -- Patricians' embrace of the Dominican Convent of St. Catherine in thirteenth-century Barcelona / Antonio M. Zaldívar -- Friars on the edge: socio-economic networking and the Dominicans of conquered Mallorca / Robin Vose -- Florentine convent as practiced place: Cosimo de'Medici, Fra Angelico, and the public library of San Marco / Allie Terry-Fritsch -- Conclusion: The mendicants as a Mediterranean phenomenon / Francisco García-Serrano -- Book reviews.
Summary
Mendicants and Merchants in the Medieval Mediterranean, edited by Chubb and Kelley, offers an interdisciplinary study of the mutually beneficial relationships that developed between merchants and the mendicant orders during the late Middle Ages.
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